Monthly Archives: August 2020

By Marc Kavinsky, Editor at IoT Business News.Rather than blockchain usurping the world, it seems that the IoT is going to give blockchain its consolation prize. Along with distributed ledger technology in play at various levels and in various applications, the unfolding IoT has other regular friends and emerging stars. Edge computing and 5G tech are two important development areas right now – significant components of the IoT that they are – but a host of realities beyond them are also going to find development and prominence as the IoT continues apace.It’s perhaps fitting that the IoT is primarily manifesting…

Matt KwongMatt Kwong has been hired by New York Times Opinion as a producer for technology journalist Kara Swisher’s upcoming podcast.He previously worked at NPR, where he was an editor and producer for “Morning Edition” and the daily news podcast “Up First.” Recently, he produced this piece for NPR on the 50th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, and this discussion with the astronaut Jessica Meir as she orbited the Earth in the International Space Station.He also edited “Morning Edition’s” Minnesota coverage after the death of George Floyd while in police custody, including this interview with State Rep. Ruth Richardson…

CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 turnkey solution is industry’s first and only licensable NB-IoT IP to receive full certification from one of the world’s largest mobile network operators.CEVA, Inc., the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies, announced today that its Dragonfly NB2 turnkey NB-IoT solution has achieved full certification from Deutsche Telekom, one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies.The monumental milestone ensures that Dragonfly NB2 IP licensees can significantly simplify and accelerate their NB-IoT chipset certification for use on Deutsche Telekom’s networks around the world.Ange Aznar, Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless IoT Business Unit at CEVA,…

Kayleigh Barber of Digiday writes about how The Wall Street Journal is using the Six-Week Money Challenge to provide personal finance coverage.Barber writes, “The Wall Street Journal launched its first free, course-style newsletter, the Six-Week Money Challenge, this month, which provides instructional steps each week that readers can follow to increase their knowledge about personal finance.“The format of the weekly newsletter, according to WSJ personal finance reporter and newsletter author Julia Carpenter, allows even the most novice person to follow along to step by step activities that are meant to teach the basics of finance as well as help readers make…

By Andrew LeCates, Director of Product Marketing and Evangelism at Claris.A foundational pillar of technology’s next wave is IoT. Businesses can use it to gain precise intelligence about how to improve or even automate many processes, and in IoT-relevant industries such as manufacturing, retail, automotive and logistics, small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs) using IoT can reap efficiency benefits, strong return on investment (ROI), and competitive advantage.By collecting and analyzing detailed data from sensors monitoring mechanical, logistical, and human real-world behavior, IoT helps small businesses gain precise intelligence about how to improve or automate the way they do business. While many large enterprises…

Eric SnyderManaging editor Eric Snyder has been promoted to editor in chief of the Nashville Business Journal.He replaces Lori Becker, who became publisher of the paper.Snyder has been managing editor since 2013. He previously was assistant managing editor. He joined the NBJ’s newsroom in 2009, writing about commercial real estate, retail and manufacturing for the paper’s print edition and the website. Before joining the Business Journal, Snyder was a reporter with the Leaf-Chronicle in Clarksville.Snyder has covered real estate, retail, restaurants, manufacturing and transportation.He is a 2005 graduate from the University of Memphis.

Korea Expressway Corporation’s network covers over 306 km of expressway, providing the connectivity backbone for flexible, innovative IoT applications.Semtech Corporation announced that Korea Expressway Corporation (KEC), a government affiliated company building and managing expressways in South Korea, has built a network based on Semtech’s LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® protocol for its expressways as the first stage in its ongoing four-year Internet of Things (IoT) deployment plan in the country.“Semtech’s LoRa devices and LoRaWAN networks represent the ideal infrastructure on which to build Korea’s next-generation IoT solutions,” said Hyo-Hoon Kim, Manager at SK Telesys. “We want to continue to uphold…

Chanel StittThe Detroit Free Press has hired Chanel Stitt as a business reporter.She will be covering minority businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofits.Stitt has been reporting trending and breaking news for the Free Press as an intern this summer. She previously was interning for MLive.She is a graduate of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where she was managing editor and then editor in chief of The Michigan Journal.

Growing technological and network maturity opens the door to new addressable markets.Asset tracking is one of the highest growth application segments for the Internet of Things (IoT).According to a new report by global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research, asset tracking device shipments will see a 51% year-on-year device shipment growth rate through 2024.Expanding LPWAN coverage, technological maturity, and the associated miniaturization of sophisticated devices are key to moving asset tracking from traditionally high-value markets to low-value high-volume markets, which will account for most of the tracker connection and shipment numbers.“Hardware devices for the asset tracking market are primarily dominated…

Doug LeDucDoug LeDuc, who has covered business, manufacturing and technology for the Fort Wayne Business Weekly, is retiring from the paper.Lisa Esquivel Long of the Business Weekly writes, “LeDuc started at Business Weekly in 2006, just a year after the business journal started. Before that he covered business news at The News-Sentinel 1989-2006. He was first hired as a business journalist by the Nashville Business Journal, where he worked 1986-1989.“‘My earliest career aspirations were inspired by A.A. Milne,’ he said. ‘Eventually my tastes evolved from Winnie-the-Pooh fan fiction to journalism, so I got a bachelor’s degree in that at Brigham…

Fibocom, a leading global provider of IoT (Internet of Things) wireless solution and wireless communication modules, announces to collaborate with LiveU on the first all-in-one production-level field unit LU800 HEVC embedded with Fibocom FM150 5G wireless module.LiveU’s LU800 Embedded with Fibocom FM150 5G Wireless ModuleThe LU800 combines multi-camera and superior video/audio capabilities with mission-critical transmission in a native 5G unit. It supports 5G/4G/3G multi communication technologies empowered by Fibocom FM150 5G module, enabling the seamless transmission of 4K videos in real-time over 5G network. The LU800 enables complex remote productions (REMI), supporting up to four fully frame-synced feeds in high…